A meeting here of men and women who have been sending food parcels to relatives and friends in the Soviet Union demanded today that the Israel Government provide sufficient foreign exchange to permit them to pay customs duty to the USSR. Lack of such payments have resulted in the return of thousands of food parcels to Israel.
During a discussion of their experiences with sending gifts to the USSR, one woman told the assemblage that after sending food parcels to a sister for years, she received a letter one day from her sister instructing the Israeli woman to “forget me.” Others related that after years of silence relatives in Lithuania and Estonia suddenly wrote and asked for food packages.
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